2010 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences

WI-IAT 2010 will take place in Toronto. Toronto is Canada’s largest city. More than 60% of the US population live within a 90-minute flight to Toronto. The city of Toronto is easily accessible from all the major international cities in the world and Toronto Pearson International Airport has non-stop or the same plane service to 42 United States cities and 56 other international cities such as Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Beijing, Tokyo and Warsaw.

Following the great success of IAT'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan, IAT'03 held in Halifax, Canada, IAT'04 held in Beijing, China, IAT'05 in Compiegne University of Technology, France, IAT'06 held in Hong Kong, IAT'07 held in Silicon Valley USA, IAT'08 held in Sydney, Australia, IAT'09 held in Milano, Italy. IAT provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2010 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.

The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10) will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2010 joint conferences are organized by York University, Toronto Canada, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.

Web Intelligence (WI) has been recognized as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) [E.g., knowledge representation, planning, knowledge discovery and data mining, intelligent agents, and social network intelligence) and advanced Information Technology (IT) [E.g., wireless networks, ubiquitous devices, social networks, semantic Web, wisdom Web, and data/knowledge grids) on the next generation of Web-empowered products, systems, services, and activities. It is one of the most important as well as promising IT research fields in the era of Web and agent intelligence.

The 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-10) will be jointly held with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-10). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2010 joint conferences are organized by York University, Toronto Canada, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART.

Following the great success of WI'01 held in Maebashi City, Japan, Wi'03 held in Halifax, Canada, WI'04 held in Beijing, China, WI'05 in Compiegne University of Technology, France, WI'06 held in Hong Kong, WI'07 held in Silicon Valley USA, WI'08 held in Sydney, Australia, WI'09 held in Milano, Italy. WI-10 provides a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners to (1) present the state-of-the-art WI technologies; (2) examine performance characteristics of various approaches in Web-based intelligent information technology; (3) cross-fertilize ideas on the development of Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains. By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI 2010 will capture current important developments of new models, new methodologies and new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based intelligent information systems.

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page for more information. The cut-off date for making reservations with the special rates is August 9, 2010
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Invited Speakers

Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waikato in New Zealand where he directs the New Zealand Digital Library research project. His research interests include language learning, information retrieval, and machine learning.

Speech Title: Wikipedia and how to use it for semantic document representation

Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California(USC). He received his
Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He leads the TEAMCORE Research Group at USC, with research is focused on
agent-based and multi-agent systems. He is a fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) and recipient of the ACM (Association
for Computing Machinery) SIGART Agents Research award. He is also the recipient of a special commendation given by the Los Angeles World Airports police from
the city of Los Angeles, USC Viterbi School of Engineering use-inspired research award, Okawa foundation faculty research award, the RoboCup scientific
challenge award, and the ACM recognition of service award. Prof. Tambe and his research group's papers have been selected as best papers
or finalists for best papers at more than a dozen premier Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research Conferences and workshops, and their
algorithms have been deployed for real-world use by several agencies including the LAX police, the Federal Air Marshals service and the Transportation
security administration.

Since 1997 Alan Smeaton has been a Professor of Computing at Dublin City University where he is Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web
Technologies. His research interests are in the management of all kinds of heterogeneous, noisy, and errorsome data. Initially his research focused on
searching through text archives and then moved to image search and on to video analysis, indexing and retrieval. Since 2001 Alan has been a founder and
coordinator of TRECVid, an annual benchmarking activity with worldwide participation of approximately 400 researchers which measures the effectiveness
of content-based operations on video archives. More recently Alan has focused his work on managing information from heterogeneous sensor networks, making
sense of the flood of data that comes from sensor applications in fields as diverse as energy monitoring, sports participation, injury rehabilitation,
digital lifelogging, and environmental monitoring.

Professor at the Universit¨¤ Degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy, where she leads the Information Retrieval research Lab. Her research activity mainly concerns the modelling and design of flexible and personalized systems for the management and access to information. She is actually working on XML retrieval, Personalized Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, Document Clustering, Preference Modelling. She has co-edited seven books e several special issues of International Journals. She has published more than 170 papers on International Journals and Books, and on the Proceeding of International Conferences. She is a member of the Editorial Board of several international journals among which Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Elsevier), Web Intelligence and Agent Systems (IOS Press), and the Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (IJCIS), Atlantis Press.

Speech Title: Issues on preference-modelling and personalization in Information Retrieval

Biography: Distingushed Professor of the College of Science and Engineering
at the University of Minnesota.
She specializes in the design of multi-robot and multi-agent systems
that are capable of making intelligent decisions. Such systems range
from software agents to robots that move in unstructured and unknown
environments and to autonomous vehicles that search a city to rescue
people after a disaster.
She is a Fellow of the AAAI and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.
She is the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial
Intelligence (SIGART), a member of the board of the Autonomous Agents
and Multi-Agent Systems society, and a member of the CRA-W board
co-chairing the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(DREU) program.